day ten - people of the big river

 Lizdey Day- District manager for the Deshutes national forest. 

Alex Enna- Project Manager for various programs. - Masters in Forestry at Colorado State University. 

Chirstine Meier - Associates degree in Forestry student - Resource Management. Botany.

Woke up at six AM, was on the breakfast crew, and prepared my lunch for the day. We had about a two 
drive to our destination and went into their Wildlife office, used the restrooms, and got some water.  We 
did introductions and had a discussion about their presentation of Lower Black Butte Swamp restoration, 
located on west side of Sisters, Oregon. There is native mussels - Western Pearl Shells located there and
 Red Band Trout (RBT). They have a relationship that grow off of each other and thrive. "Glochidia" -
 Baby mussels. There is a lot of different species in the ecosystem, when it comes to Elk, birds, Mule
 Deer,  and other species you can imagine in the forest mountain area. Our overall goal is to build BDA's
 (Beaver Dam Analogues), to help the creek build up water pools for the fish and to mimic Beavers. In 
hopes of beavers returning back on their own with all the vegetation being restored as well that will be
beneficial for them to use to build their own dams to help the fish and other things. We helped them maintain the BDA's that they already built previously. The hike into the creek was about thirty minutes and got straight to it. Me, Kyal, James, and Yoleth started on their number 7 BDA and started inserting all the willow cuttings to stop the water from coming through. We had fun and some experience so we got it done in a timely matter and it turned out to be very good. We were in a time crunch so we took the riding trail back to the vehicles and came to Starbucks to celebrate Corbin passing his exam, so GOOD JOB CORBIN!!!!!!! Jessica provided us drinks and came to also catch up on our blogs. It's our last night at Craine Prairie, so I'm happy to finish today's blog to get to Umatilla. 

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